Paternal and maternal psychiatric history and risk of preterm and early term birth: A nationwide study using Swedish registers.
Weiyao YinJonas F LudvigssonUlrika ÅdenKari RisnesMartina PerssonAbraham ReichenbergMichael E SilvermanKajantie EeroSven SandinPublished in: PLoS medicine (2023)
Paternal and maternal psychiatric history were associated with a shift to earlier gestational age and increased risk of births before full term. The risk consistently increased when fathers had a positive history of different psychiatric disorders, increased further when mothers were diagnosed and was highest when both parents were diagnosed.